Parent Support
Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS)
What does PALS do?:
- Offer advice and support for you and your family
- Provide you with information on NHS services
- Listen to your concerns, suggestions and queries
- Help you sort out problems quickly
- Encourage you to get involved
CAMHS Services Sheffield
Information on all Children's Health services in Sheffield.
Young Minds
A wealth of information about adolescent mental Health issues. Excellent links and resources.
SYEDA
A support service for young people with eating disorders and their carers
SENDIAST
SENDIAST provide:
- Completely confidential and impartial information & advice over the telephone
- Completely confidential and impartial information & advice face to face either in the parent/carer’s home or at a venue of their choosing
- Explanations of their rights and of their child’s rights
- Explanations of their duties, the duties, roles and responsibilities of everyone else
- Explanations of the jargon used by schools, local authority officers and other professionals
- Help in understanding ‘the system’
- Help in understanding the letters, reports etc that they may receive about their child
- Help in writing letters or reports
- Help in making complaints
- Help in registering formal appeals and with the whole appeal process
- Help to prepare for meetings
- Support at meetings
- Signposting to other agencies and services relevant to their individual need
- Information about support for other parents in similar circumstances